TripAdvisor Reviews The Cottage Suvarnabhumi Bangkok

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... We only worked this out on the return journey! So for 40p, he'd take us all the way to the mall, but with 2 stops on the way. First was a tailors, and the prices been exceptionally cheap I got a shirt (for my birthday) tailor fit for me, which was a good experience. Next stop was a jewellers like nothing you've ever seen! We pulled up and the opened the door for us from the inside while we were still feet away. We had a personal escort around the entire ...

... me, I knew we did it as a family when we were in Thailand before but know I can actually remember doing it! And then we went to the seal show which was amazing, even though it was all in Thai it was still really funny with one seal clapping what the other had done. Me and Donna sat pretty close to front and wondered why noone else was, it became apparent when we got absolutely soaked! After smelling of fish we tried ...

... and the impromptu concerts) taking place. This is all leading up to the disruption of the forthcoming election on the 2nd February. Roads are blocked across the Bangkok, making the metro and sky trains overcrowded as taxi's and regular cars can't get around the city. The effect on tourism has been quite bad according to our taxi driver and hotel staff as news coverage has been pretty widespread overseas.

Undeterred, we ventured outside of the hotel to see what all the fuss ...

... saw our first other “farangs” at the zoo, but they were all old, fat, bald white men that had found some beautiful Thai girl to marry. It was a little strange. Our family told us then that they were expecting us to be old, fat, and bald since those were the only white people they had ever seen before us. They were very relived when they found us to be young and beautiful (their words not ours!) with ...

... hostel,that proved to be quite difficult as most Thai people we approached could not speak English and the directions we had were not making any sense.After a little bit of perseverance we finally found the rainbow hostel tucked away at the bottom of the Kao San road.

When I opened the door to get in my room I could see exactly why it was costing me £6 per night,You couldn't swing a flea in there and the bed was like sleeping on a bed ...